A short description of the human muscles : arranged as they appear on dissection : together with their several uses, and the synonyma of the best authors / by John Innes.

  • Innes, John, 1739-1777.
Date:
1818
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Credit: A short description of the human muscles : arranged as they appear on dissection : together with their several uses, and the synonyma of the best authors / by John Innes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    PREFACE. SEVERAL full and accurate descriptions of the Muscles have already been published. But their size and prolixity have rendered them of less value to the dissector than the small Trea- tise of Dr. Douglas, which was first published about the beginning of this century, and, since that time, has undergone various impressions, without receiving any improvement, excepting the addition of the synonyma from Albinus. It is therefore presumed, that a simple and concise description of the muscles, which should contain all the improvements of the moderns, is still wanting. To class the muscles according to their uses, may do very well in a large work, or in de- scribing their compound actions ; but this method can never answer the purposes of disw A 2